In the final days of state budget negotiations, there was a pressurized hush around the legislative complex as lawmakers feuded over the sudden addition of legalizing four casinos to the nearly $30 billion state budget.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 9:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This week, allies of embattled ACLU of North Carolina lobbyist Kristie Puckett-Williams erupted on social media, denouncing the apparent termination of Williams over aggressive and profane comments online.
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2023 @ 8:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, an ACLU North Carolina lobbyist, Kristie Puckett Williams, made graphic, sexually harassing comments to conservative radio host Pete Kaliner during a Twitter discussion regarding N.C. Senate Bill 49, the Parents’ Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2023 @ 2:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon looks into presumptive President-elect Joe Biden’s likely appointments.
Published: Thursday, November 26th, 2020 @ 12:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Duke Energy lobbyist said Gov. Roy Cooper’s senior policy adviser, Ken Eudy, wasn’t truthful when making statements to a legislative committee investigating the Cooper administration’s role in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project and an associated $57.8 million discretionary fund.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 @ 4:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Ken Eudy, Gov. Roy Cooper's policy adviser, was the governor's key negotiator with Duke Energy in developing a $57.8 discretionary Atlantic Coast Pipeline fund Duke and its utility partners would pay to Cooper.
Published: Saturday, January 26th, 2019 @ 12:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Washington DC lobbyist Scott Dacey has spent almost a quarter of a million dollars in advertising, trying to unseat Congressman Walter Jones.
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 1:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald J. Trump is taking steps to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which can serve as a model for wider government reform
Published: Thursday, February 1st, 2018 @ 1:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In The Peach State there is a concern that Lobbyists are “Influencing” our Legislators. “Influencing” was once called “bribing”.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2017 @ 7:35 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Destroying property and taking things from people doesn't grow the economy. Sounds rather obvious? That's why lobbyists come armed with "economic impact" studies.
Published: Friday, April 29th, 2016 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's $1.1 trillion dollars. It's 2009 pages. It was written by FOUR lawmakers and a bunch of lobbyists.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:34 am
By: Brant Clifton
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After months of wrangling us taxpayers now know how our money is to be spent and collected.
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2015 @ 7:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When the word "lobbyist" is mentioned, what comes to mind? For so many the answer is manipulation, scheming, and corruption
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 3:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In part one of this series we reported on right-of-center political consultants who have created an innovative business model advising a growing number of Republican legislators to turn their backs on conservative, free-market principles to take up the cause of more government mandates...
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 @ 8:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina's certificate-of-need law artificially inflates health care costs by limiting competition in provision of health care services. That's the assessment of an orthopedic surgeon who spent a decade on the state board that oversees the CON process.
Published: Wednesday, October 15th, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate on Wednesday rolled out an ambitious Medicaid reform planwith an aggressive timetable that health care provider organizations panned and other Medicaid experts applauded.
Published: Saturday, July 19th, 2014 @ 9:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After a weekend of online chatter, media spin, and political fulminations, there can be no doubt that the end of the 2013 legislative session was, in truth, the start of the 2014 election cycle.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While asking for each of these offices to investigate items under their respective jurisdictions in relation to the SBOE, De Luca also asked the new SBOE to conduct an internal review of its own staff's actions.
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 @ 2:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Although Raleigh is a much different state capital than it was when I started writing about politics in the late 1980s - the ratios of plaids to pinstripes...
Published: Monday, February 4th, 2013 @ 8:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For months, North Carolina politicians, lobbyists, policy analysts, and journalists have been buzzing about the possibility that fundamental tax reform might top the state agenda in the coming year.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 12:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As North Carolina lawmakers, lobbyists, and activists prepare for the Great Tax Reform Debate of 2013, there are a few things everyone ought to keep in mind.
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2012 @ 4:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Civitas investigation has revealed how lobbyist Bob Hall, Director of the liberal advocacy group Democracy North Carolina, is a behind-the-scenes driving force at the State Board of Elections (SBE).
Published: Sunday, December 16th, 2012 @ 12:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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There are real-live North Carolinians, people in positions of authority or influence, who believe you can stimulate economic growth by paying people not to work.
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2012 @ 12:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some lobbyists recently received an email from the reelection campaign of House Speaker Thom Tillis asking for money. State law prohibits lawmakers from soliciting lobbyists for campaign contributions.
Published: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 @ 11:24 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A couple of weeks ago in looking at the latest county budget recommendation coming out of the Office of the County Manager, I offered up some comments about the Rte. 17 lobbyist, questioning the amount of money we are spending on the activity and the results that have been achieved.
Published: Friday, June 8th, 2012 @ 1:48 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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North Carolina's courts have ruled it is legal for local governments to use taxpayer resources to lobby the General Assembly on legislation, and that's exactly what nearly two dozen cities and counties are registered to do as the May 16 legislative short session nears.
Published: Friday, April 20th, 2012 @ 6:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Everyone from farmers to those receiving welfare has advocates and even lobbyists working for more and better payments with less regulation. Is it any wonder the nation is in bad shape?
Published: Friday, March 16th, 2012 @ 2:37 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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